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| Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince | |
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| Developer(s) | Tose |
| Publisher(s) | Square Enix |
| Director(s) | Shotaro Ozeki |
| Producer(s) | Kento Yokota |
| Designer(s) | Mirei Hashimoto |
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| Artist(s) | Akira Toriyama |
| Writer(s) | Jin Fujisawa |
| Composer(s) | Koichi Sugiyama |
| Series | Dragon Quest Monsters |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Switch |
| Release | December 1, 2023 |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince[a] is a 2023 role-playing video game developed by Tose and published by Square Enix for the Nintendo Switch. It is the seventh game in the Dragon Quest Monsters series following Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 and the first to be released outside of Japan since Joker 2 in 2011. The game received mixed reviews from critics and sold a million copies by January 2024. It is the last Dragon Quest game to be released during Akira Toriyama's lifetime.
The game stars Psaro, the main antagonist from Dragon Quest IV; The Dark Prince is set before the events of Dragon Quest IV. Psaro is on a quest to defeat his father who cursed him, by becoming a 'monster wrangler'. Gameplay consists of turn-based menu selection combat and 3D overworld exploration. Like previous installments in the Dragon Quest Monsters series, the player must obtain monsters, either through an impressive show of force, enticing them with meat, or hatching them from eggs, and then combine obtained monsters through "synthesis" in order to create a team powerful enough to overcome tougher foes.
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